Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1905
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TABLE P. Shewing the number of Deaths (corrected) from the 7 principal in the ten years 1891—1900, and in the new TABLE P. zymotic diseases in the old Parish of Lambeth and in London, Borough of Lambeth and in London during 1905.
Disease. | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | Annual Average of ten years 1891—1900 (old Parish). | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Total Deaths (corrected) in 10 years. | Total Deaths in 1905. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Total Deaths (corrected) 1905. | |
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Smallpox | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 1.1 | 0.2 | — | — | |
Diphtheria (and Membranous Croup) | 78 | 127 | 172 | 138 | 103 | 140 | 145 | 115 | 159 | 103 | 127.6 | 23.6 | 37 | 7.9 | |
Scarlet Fever | 46 | 76 | 69 | 64 | 53 | 63 | 42 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 53.6 | 9.9 | 31 | 6.7 | |
Fever | Typhus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 0.4 | 0.07 | — | — |
Typhoid or Enteric | 28 | 22 | 36 | 46 | 26 | 24 | 26 | 35 | 50 | 54 | 32.8 | 6.1 | 10 | 2.2 | |
Simple Continued | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 22 | 0.4 | — | — | |
Measles | 128 | 187 | 113 | 182 | 151 | 185 | 139 | 133 | 169 | 69 | 144.4 | 26.7 | 96 | 20.7 | |
Whooping Cough | 239 | 135 | 151 | 110 | 132 | 140 | 144 | 159 | 130 | 97 | 144.4 | 26.7 | 79 | 17.0 | |
Diarrhæa | 165 | 155 | 197 | 139 | 263 | 152 | 238 | 254 | 249 | 153 | 188.4 | 34.8 | 178 | 38.3 | |
Borough of Lambeth | 692 | 705 | 748 | 680 | 732 | 708 | 734 | 726 | 782 | 497 | 694.9 | 128.6 | 431 | 92.8 | |
County of London | 9675 | 11983 | 13223 | 11544 | 11467 | 14009 | 11525 | 12482 | 11147 | 10136 | 11575.3 | 130.8 | 7894 | 112.1 |